bosun

How To Use bosun In A Sentence

• One old man, who I learned was a bosun, was so decrepit that I thought he had been recently injured. CHAPTER II
• Nancy -- my bosun; ain't he a peach?" was the answer I got, and from the mate's manner of enunciation I was quite aware that "Nancy" had been used derisively. CHAPTER V
• Accordingly, arming an employee with a pickax and sending him into the vessel in a bosun's seat would be inadvisable.
• Jackie-Jackie, a Tongan sailor of experience, served as a sort of bosun and semi-second mate over the mixed Kanaka crew. A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
• The wind that had roared all night lay quelled by the headland; the bosun grew too sleepy to shout. Excerpt: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick
• Beneath the third is the bosun, the leader of the able-bodied seamen and the foreman who actually puts the mate's orders into effect. 'A Captain's Duty'
• The two bosuns are in fear of their lives with this clique, which is growing; for Steve Roberts, the ex-cowboy, and the white-slaver, Arthur CHAPTER XVII
• Jarvis had, with the instincts of a long-time bosun, known the master was on the bridge and orders would be coming down. LET NOT THE DEEP
• On the day when Chadfield found the triple deadeye, his companion at the beach was 79-year-old Iain “Bosun” Dow, who told reporters: Wrecked Ship Sends Beachcomber a “Gift” « Scavenging
• Various calls were made by bugle and bosun's pipe across the PA system of a ship to announce daily activities and pronouncements.